But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.
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But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.
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Textual maps. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 25x18cm, x, 290pp, Series: Studies in Industry and Society, 12. Contents: "Ship-Building as Much as Possible Advanced": The Rise and Decline of Wooden Shipbuilding, 1640-1870: "A Small Margin": Ironclads and the Transition from Wooden to Iron Shipbuiding; The American Clyde: Corporate and Proprietary Capitalism in the Philadelphia Maritime Economy, 1865-1875; Workshop of the World: Commerce, Crafts, and Class Conflict, 1885-1989; New Departure: Growth and Crisis, 1898-1914; This Machine of War: World War I; What Next? The Postwar Depression, 1919-1929; Epilogue.
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Like New. 1997. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, MD, 1995. Cloth. 4to. Book is As New. D-j is As New. (Subject: Economics & Business History. )
